The main square is a bustling place with several minor points of interest. Most conspicuous is the monument to those who died fighting against Menelik’s conquest of Harar. It shows the five original gates. To the north, the Egyptian-built building that’s now Wesen Seged Hotel was once a store house (and perhaps also an office) used by Arthur Rimbaud, as was the white building with the balcony across the road. Across the square is a chat market , one of many in the city. To the east is the rather unimpressive Medhane Alem Cathedral , built by Ras Makonnen on the site of an Egyptian mosque.
